The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

Although the newest house is not big, it is exquisite in his eyes, and it is made of good materials, not to mention mosquito-proof, but also very comfortable and luxurious.

It's a pity, this is just a temporary foothold for that prince.

After Uncle Forrest Gump came back, a navy soldier happened to bring them food. He took a look and was shocked: "How could this happen?"

"What's the matter?" Those women were terrified. The food is pretty good. Could it be that the old village chief is still not satisfied?

"No, why do you eat the same food as that prince?" Old village head A-Gump panicked.

Three of the firemen who brought the food were natives of Guangdong, and some relatives were in Nanyang, but they were not here, but they could understand the language here.

The one in the lead said: "My lord is a kind person, with a soft heart, and he likes children. From the time they hit the sea, they are just like our food."

The old village chief A-Gump was stunned.

He was silent, and women and children dared not eat.

Although each of them was so greedy and starving to death, they didn't dare to stretch out their hands.

"Hey! Old village chief Forrest Gump, just say something, don't be in a daze, eat quickly, you are not hungry, the children and women are hungry." The fire-headed soldier stretched out his hand and patted the old man several times before putting The old man was patted awake.

"Eat, eat, but you can't eat too much, just eat half full, so as not to be full." The old village chief A-Gump immediately said to eat.

The rest of the women and children were really obedient, and they ate half full when they said they were half full.

Even if they were very greedy, they didn't dare to eat too much. They hadn't had a full meal for several days, and they only ate a few mouthfuls of fish in the past two days.

It is incomparable with the meal in front of you, and there is tofu here!

They don't have the ability to make tofu, they have stone mills but they don't have the brine for tofu.

On the other hand, the city on the big island sells tofu, but it might be spoiled when transported to them.

After dinner, it was probably too late, only the people from Coconut Grove Island, the others did not come to Coconut Grove Island, but everyone knows that they should come the next day.

That night, everyone in the Pearl Chain Islands suffered from insomnia, except Shisi and Nian Gengyao.

Fourteenth, after dinner, he asked Nian Gengyao, "Are any of our people injured?"

"No, but there are a few unlucky ones." Nian Gengyao gritted his teeth and said, "Two idiots touched the barrel of the gun and got burned; the other three sprained their feet on the beach while charging! Two of them were stepped on by our own people!"

When fighting, we all know that after the gun is fired, the barrel is hot. Basically, each gun has a cooling time of 5 minutes.

If you are in a hurry, you need to wipe the gun barrel with a cold water rag to cool it down, but it is generally not necessary. There are many artillery on the ship, three floors up and down, and they fire in sections. There is plenty of time to wait for the artillery to cool down naturally. In that case, the artillery can be used for more time. .

I don't understand this kind of common sense, so I want to try one by one. Is the artillery tube really hot?

As a result, a layer of skin was burned off!

In fact, these are all non-combat reductions, but the reasons are very funny, and Nian Gengyao is mad at him.

"Okay, okay, don't be angry, it's not easy for them." Although Master Fourteen said so, he still bent over with a smile.

Seeing the fourteenth master smiling, Nian Gengyao breathed a sigh of relief. Although his subordinates are stupid, it is good that the fourteenth master can smile.

At night, people did not dare to relax. One-third of the people were on vigil and alert for fear of being attacked at night, and the whole island was brightly lit by torches.

On the second day, a group of people changed to be vigilant, and the others washed, had breakfast, and then went to rest.

Furthermore, the people around the fourteenth master are all eunuchs, so they don't have to worry about it, they can help a few women take care of their children.

And the big ships of the big merchants who came with the fourteenth master also landed on other islands.

They can take their goods to the city on the big island to do business. It doesn't look like much here, but it is said that the city on the big island in the middle is quite prosperous.

It's a pity that Nian Gengyao won't let Fourteenth Master go to an unsafe place. Who knows what attitude these Han survivors in Nanyang have?

I heard that there are city owners on the big island, and they are all Tu Emperors.

What's more, many of these people came from the Ming Dynasty. What if they hate Manchu people?

Although there are many people here, the most precious one is the Fourteenth Master.

Whenever he loses half a hair, all their Qing Royal Navy will have to desperately retaliate.

And the Fourteenth Master also knew Nian Gengyao's scruples, so he didn't propose to go to the big island inside to see what happened, and stayed on the Coconut Grove Island.

For breakfast, they eat simple white rice oatmeal, with salted fish and eggplant stew.

This dish is made from local materials. There are eggplants and salted fish here. Even the old and the weak, women and children can’t finish it.

But there is not enough to eat with salted fish.

The Huotou Army exchanged cloth with them for a lot of food that they couldn't finish, and because there were less than [-] old, weak, women and children left on the island, the Fourteenth Master said that there is nothing for them to do, and we will have a meal with them every day That's enough, just after going through a catastrophe, these women were guarded by a group of soldiers, and they slept soundly at night.

The women don't eat in vain, they wash clothes for the soldiers.

The soldiers were all men after all, and they usually washed their clothes by themselves, but after all they were not as clean as the women. All of them were very happy, and they gave these women copper coins.

Forrest Gump, the old village chief, was still worried that these people had some bad tastes, and he was messing around with the women. As a result, these people just sent dirty clothes shyly, and after washing and drying them, they came to get the clothes and pay for them!

Although it was Kangxi Tongbao.

But it's better than nothing.

A woman took the money and asked the old village chief A-Gump, "Can this money be spent?"

The money here is very complicated. In fact, it is usually barter, and there is no currency system yet.

There are copper coins, silver and gold brought by the sea merchants, gold coins, silver coins and copper coins brought by the Spaniards, and local people who use mulberry cloth as currency. In short, it is a bit messy.

But Kangxi Tongbao is rarely used. After all, they have no place to spend money, and there is more cloth in circulation, which is easier to use than copper coins.

Money is something that cannot be eaten when hungry, and cannot be worn when cold, and can only be traded as currency. They prefer to use cloth and mulberry for small and scattered transactions.

Copper coins are also rare for them.

"Yes." A-Gump, the old village chief, smoking a hookah: "Has the people in other places not moved yet?"

"No, I'm probably waiting and watching." The woman was married from another island, and the islands are connected by waterways, so small boats can travel between them.

Now there is no movement at all, and they are probably waiting to see, because they still don't know the attitude of the Qing Dynasty towards them, the Nanyang survivors.

Especially when the opponent is still under pressure.

Those Royal Navy looks very tough.

The firearms are also very sophisticated, and it doesn't take much effort to fight pirates and Spanish galleons.

Moreover, they were strictly disciplined. When the officer dealt with the captives, he was merciless and cold-blooded.

With such a powerful army, who can guarantee that they will not occupy this place?

After all, this is a livable place that their ancestors have worked hard for hundreds of years to make.

I don't know how much painstaking efforts and efforts have been put in, how many ancestors' blood has been sprinkled on this land.

Now is an eventful time, and everyone dare not act rashly.

The Fourteenth Lord was also talking about this to Nian Gengyao: "Why didn't they come to see the Lord?"

"Perhaps they are afraid? After all, our army is overwhelming." Nian Gengyao said: "But they are too ignorant."

If you don't come to see me, at least you have a message, not even a message, and you don't have a personal visit.

What the hell does this mean?

The fourteenth master is here at least as a prince.

No matter what outsiders think of the Qing Dynasty, this is the prince of a country.

This indifference is simply contempt, contempt!

"Wait for their reaction, wait for another three days." The Fourteenth Master said: "In these three days, let everyone take a good rest."

Within three days, no one came.

The navy also took a rare three-day repair, changed all the fresh water, washed clothes and took a shower.

Even the deck of the warship had been cleaned before anyone came to Coconut Grove Island.

There were quite a few people who came. It is said that the city lord of Dadao City has come, and this is the city lord, dressed in hemp and mourning.

"What do you mean?" They didn't see Fourteenth Master, but the first thing they saw was Nian Gengyao, Mr. Nian.

"My lord." The young city lord, wearing mourning clothes, looked mournful: "The little father died in the last battle. The little one held his father's funeral at home and inherited his father's position as the city lord. In fact, Dadao City is already full of plains, and many people's strong laborers are... This is only three days late, after all, there is a big funeral, and it is inconvenient to see the nobleman right away."

"Listen to you, are you a scholar?" Nian Gengyao was also a scholar. Although this man's voice was sad, he was well-founded and educated. He should be a scholar.

"The small family is a farming and studying heirloom for generations." The city lord reported his family name: "The small one's surname is Lan, Lan Jizhong."

"Blue?" Nian Gengyao smiled, "It's a very special surname."

"Your Excellency should know that one of the four strange cases in the early Ming Dynasty, the Lan Yu case." Lan Jizhong was a real person, and directly explained the history of their family.

In fact, the exchanges between the Central Plains and Southeast Asia can be traced back to the Han Dynasty 2000 years ago.

According to records such as "Historical Records" and "Hanshu Geographical Records", around the first century AD, the Central Plains had exchanges with Myanmar, Vietnam and other countries.

During the Tang Dynasty, the number of immigrants began to increase.However, the Nanyang Road of the Chinese people did not become wider until the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Before Zheng He's voyages to the Western Seas (in the early stage, he went to the South Seas), officials and common people's voyages to the South Seas were small-scale activities.

But there are also many people who have a reason to go to Nanyang and settle down here.

The Lan family, one of the orphans of the "Lanyu case", one of the four strange cases in the early Ming Dynasty, came to Nanyang to take root.

Even when Zheng He went to the Western Ocean and Nanyang later, they did not have any contact with Zheng He.

And because the Lan family is a military general's family after all, they not only have books, but also military books, and are much better than the natives in commanding troops and fighting, so they have this place.

Later, Han people gradually came here to take refuge and live here, and then they occupied the Pearl Chain Islands.

The locals call the city on the big island Pearl City, but other people call it Big Island City.

There are many people from the Central Plains of various periods around, and they have taken root here and formed a force, but because they only insist on intermarrying with Han people, not with locals and some messy people, so they have always lived well. more difficult.

There are local natives and pirates, as well as foreigners from outside. They usually live in a difficult life, and now it is even more difficult.

Since the firearms gradually became sharper, their advantage gradually narrowed. Swords, guns, swords and halberds were unable to fight against hot weapons, so that the old city lord Lan died in battle.

Thanks to Nian Gengyao who brought his troops here and collected the bones afterwards, after the cremation, the ashes were taken away.

Therefore, Lan Jizhong, the city lord, was able to restrain his father's ashes and bury them.

"It turns out that he is a descendant of General Sapphire. It's really disrespectful." Nian Gengyao also admired the warrior: "General Sapphire back then, it's really... a pity."

The Sapphire case involved a lot, but what happened specifically?History has not given an answer either.

"There are different opinions about the family ancestors. It's just that there were only two brothers and sisters of the Lan family who went out to sea under the escort of the family generals. The family members of those generals brought the brothers and sisters here. This is the ancestor of the Lan family. Living up to now, in Pearl City, people from the Lan family account for half, and people with other surnames account for half." Lan Jizhong said: "If adults allow, I would like to pay a visit to Prince Xun."

"Do you know the Qing Dynasty?" Nian Gengyao answered him clearly without being positive.

"I know." Lan Jizhong said: "The Ming Dynasty perished, and the Qing Dynasty replaced the Ming Dynasty."

"Then do you know that the Qing Dynasty was founded by the Manchus?" Nian Gengyao wanted to know his attitude towards the Qing Dynasty.

"Actually, the young one was born here and grew up here. Although he yearns for the Central Plains, he doesn't want to do anything. Our Lan family has been here for hundreds of years." Lan Jizhong said seriously: "If you want to return to the roots, I went back early."

The Lanyu case was one of the four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty, and none of these four cases were overturned in the end.

The cases involved far and wide, especially the Sapphire case. More than 1 people died and 10 people were implicated in the past ten years.

As a result, the Lan family is still unwilling to return to the Central Plains, and is only living hard overseas.

"The owner of the Lan city is too modest. The Lan family occupied the Pearl Chain Islands here and established the Pearl City. They have sheltered these Nanyang Han survivors for hundreds of years and have made great contributions." Nian Gengyao said: "I can inform you, but the prince will see you." If I don’t see you, I won’t guarantee it.”

"Thank you, Mr. Nian." Lan Jizhong cupped his hands in a salute: "The little one will wait here."

In fact, Lan Jizhong did not come alone. He brought the owners of the 81 small islands in the Pearl Chain Islands, hundreds of village chiefs, and three large boxes of gifts.

These gifts are all carefully prepared by him.